The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-12-01
NUGGETS.
Grains OF Pure Gold Raked Out OF the
Dust ''

Slaves in Tangier may be fairly said
to be bound in Morocco. a u
The most unkindest cut of all is to be
found in the average $8 suit of clothes
The rumOr that Mr.. Parnel is suffer
ing from cancerous tumOr is denied
1t is better to put your money into
the trust than to put your trust in your
money. ;@
HI. Rider Haggard denies that he is
coming to America Immediately. He
may come over next fall.
Jay Gould's income is placed at $1,000
per hour, not including the periodical
contributions of the lambs.
Oarsman Beach has profted by the
experience of Hanlan and will shortly
retire from professional rowing. a
The chap who finds carpet nail in
his uncooked oysters is among those
who wish the tax taken off raw ma
tefial.
"After Mr.. Blaine, whom" asks a
Boston paper. Why, Mr.. Cleveland, of
course, if Mr.. Blaine insists upon being
nominated -.......
In some counties of Kentucky the
salary of the county judge is as low as
$3.50 year. Very likely that is as much
as they are worth.
David Dudley Field takes exercise at
the age of eighty-twO years by walking
eight miles every day and riding horse
back for an hour besides.
Abraham Burbank, who died in Pitt
field, Mass, lately, was the largest real
estate owner in that neighborhood.
His estate is valued at $SO0OOO.
Governor Bodwell, of Maine, has
granted Mrs. Elizabeth Colby, of Bing-
ham, authority to solemnize marriages
and take acknowledgment of deeds.
When pawnbrOker pays $3.50 for a
new $50 overcoat he may be trying to
lead an honest life, but he leaves room
for healthy suspicion to the contrary.
The name of Garfield avenue, Wash
ington, has been changed to Wyoming,
owing, it is safdgt0 some of the super
stitiOus property owners along its line.
The Indians have taken to sucking
cigarettes. Now let them stand around
smoking the heads Of their canes and
the problem of their civilization is
solved. ' .'
Frank Gordon, son of the Governor
of Georgia, is to be married on Decem-
ber Is to Miss Georgia L. Kilbourn,
daughter of Hallett Kilbourn, of Wash
iAgtOn.
ats an ill wind that blows nobody
good" said the Thanksgiving turkey,
as cyclone whirled him from under
the farmers uplifted hatchet into the
next county. ".
Potter Palmer, the Chicago million
ARE, was a clerk in acountry store in
Pennsylvania at a salary of $40 a
month, before he migrated west to the
Lake City in 1867. 1 'STad j'h r''s
Attorney General O'Brien, of New
, York, has been awarded fee of $10,.
282.62 for services as counsel to the re-
Geiver of the Broadway and Seventh av-
enue Railway Company.
Wilton Jones, of England, has Just
finished a strong drama entitled "Kis-
met" There would have been a
greater smack of popularity to the
name had he left off the It,"
In the few months that have elapsed
since it was discovered that the coun-
try surrounding, Wellston, o., was rich
in mineral resources, that town has
increased in population from rs to 1900.
Roland Nickerson, son of the presi-
dent of the First National Bank of Chi
cago, and heir to a fortune of $5, 5,OOOOOO,
employs himself in cooking the food
for the 10000 street car horses in the
city.
The Rockland Courier Journal in a
momentary outburst of frankness, puts
up as motto under it's title; "The
Press is the -Archimedean Lever that
Moves the World at Two Dollars
Year" "' i'''
Michael Roch, laborer on one of the
coal docks in Chicago, lit his pipe and
leaned up against post for smoke,
Half an hour afterwards companion
saw him in the same attitude and
tossed piece of coal at him, but
he did not move. He was dead.
A ghost in the form of a woman of
prodigious height, dressed all in black,
terrified the negroes of Birmingham,
Ala, for long tint until one Of the
Drawer of them Investigated matters
with hickory stick. The "ghost"
proved to be the son of a respectable
farmer. 30 '~
REPUBLICAN newspapers should in
form an anxious public if Blaine made